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what I do and what I watch
Jan. 22nd, 2007 11:13 amI climb tall ladders and walk vast dark corridors and haunted storage facilities by my own self. I then have to squeeze my body into unlikely places to find thousands of dusty documents for my client Westlaw. You can't be weak, you can't be scared and you can't have asthma to do what I do. Also, you can't be dumb and you can't be afraid of heights, and it helps if you're nimble and fast.
After finding the material and retrieving it, it needs to be examined, so that no sex-crimes, crimes involving minors or anything else that will break public records laws gets scanned and put out on the internets. I'm the human filter. This project will end by the end of March, and by then I'm going to be so damned familiar with US Supreme Court Cases, I could probably help any court clerk out anytime.
And oh I will miss the nice juicy sums of money that flow in on my bank account each week!
But enough about that now.
I need to inform anyone who's unaware that Clive Owens is possibly one of the six SEXIEST MEN ALIVE.
We saw "Children of Men" Saturday, and for once I'm happy to say that sometimes a script is better than the book. Not that PD James' book is bad, PD James rarely produces a bad read, I just mean that in certain cases the script writers make just the right decisions when it comes to picking what to derive and what to alter from the original text, and in this case they created a brilliant amalgam of current fears among western upper classes, mundane terrorist/war fears of the last 20 years and some nice going believable science fiction.
BBC films bombarded me with near-future dystopian portraits of London that blew my mind (since London is one of the capitals of the world that I've visited the most), and the acting was a couple of notches beyond good, down to the tiniest minor cameos.
I can understand why this has been called "The Blade Runner of the 21'st century" - and I'm not offended, even though Bladerunner is a holy icon to me. (the director's cut, with the depressive ending)
I recommend this movie to anyone who can stand violence, gloom, near-futurism and good acting. All the ideas are not totally new, but damn, it feels like a necessary watch as well as a decent one.
Also, I rented and saw Night Shyamalan's "Lady in the Water" - since I hadn't had time to catch it at the movies. The most bizarre thing about this film is the vast difference in opinion about it. Lots of people hated it or found it utterly silly/confusing, and yet it clearly lacked the twist endings and the hip pop-culture heaviness that has burdened the critique on Shyamalan's earlier movies. This film differs from his previous repertoire - it is not violent for one thing - it's simply a fairy tale and nothing else. There really is nothing to add - except that I liked it, in agreement with the 16 % of good reviews of the film from some journalists, we who liked it are suckers for beautiful and hopeful fairy-tales where goofy people get to play a part and catch a glimpse of something awesome.
So if you like nice visuals, don't mind a bit of sap-factor, love fairy tales, love focus on bizarre characters, go for it. If you liked Shyamalan's other moves, it's not certain you'll like this one at all. No pop-culture, no violence and no, it's not a horror movie, not even close.
After finding the material and retrieving it, it needs to be examined, so that no sex-crimes, crimes involving minors or anything else that will break public records laws gets scanned and put out on the internets. I'm the human filter. This project will end by the end of March, and by then I'm going to be so damned familiar with US Supreme Court Cases, I could probably help any court clerk out anytime.
And oh I will miss the nice juicy sums of money that flow in on my bank account each week!
But enough about that now.
I need to inform anyone who's unaware that Clive Owens is possibly one of the six SEXIEST MEN ALIVE.
We saw "Children of Men" Saturday, and for once I'm happy to say that sometimes a script is better than the book. Not that PD James' book is bad, PD James rarely produces a bad read, I just mean that in certain cases the script writers make just the right decisions when it comes to picking what to derive and what to alter from the original text, and in this case they created a brilliant amalgam of current fears among western upper classes, mundane terrorist/war fears of the last 20 years and some nice going believable science fiction.
BBC films bombarded me with near-future dystopian portraits of London that blew my mind (since London is one of the capitals of the world that I've visited the most), and the acting was a couple of notches beyond good, down to the tiniest minor cameos.
I can understand why this has been called "The Blade Runner of the 21'st century" - and I'm not offended, even though Bladerunner is a holy icon to me. (the director's cut, with the depressive ending)
I recommend this movie to anyone who can stand violence, gloom, near-futurism and good acting. All the ideas are not totally new, but damn, it feels like a necessary watch as well as a decent one.
Also, I rented and saw Night Shyamalan's "Lady in the Water" - since I hadn't had time to catch it at the movies. The most bizarre thing about this film is the vast difference in opinion about it. Lots of people hated it or found it utterly silly/confusing, and yet it clearly lacked the twist endings and the hip pop-culture heaviness that has burdened the critique on Shyamalan's earlier movies. This film differs from his previous repertoire - it is not violent for one thing - it's simply a fairy tale and nothing else. There really is nothing to add - except that I liked it, in agreement with the 16 % of good reviews of the film from some journalists, we who liked it are suckers for beautiful and hopeful fairy-tales where goofy people get to play a part and catch a glimpse of something awesome.
So if you like nice visuals, don't mind a bit of sap-factor, love fairy tales, love focus on bizarre characters, go for it. If you liked Shyamalan's other moves, it's not certain you'll like this one at all. No pop-culture, no violence and no, it's not a horror movie, not even close.
